Lost Coast Outpost - 18 Mar 2018
So what's with the flat Earth myth? Following Washington Irving's fable (and a couple of other lesser-known writers), the myth took hold in the years following publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species—that is, when there was a very real ...

Express.co.uk - 11 Mar 2018
Neil deGrasse Tyson, famed astrophysicist and television host, has confirmed the long held belief Earth is indeed round and not flat. Appearing online in a YouTube video posted on the StarTalk channel, Mr Tyson vented his outrage and debunked the Flat ...

Vox - 19 Mar 2018
The differences are due to how the sunlight gets refracted (bent) as it enters Earth's atmosphere at different latitudes. That daylight is longer than 12 hours on the equinox is also due to how we commonly measure the length of a day: from the first ...

Jacksonville Journal-Courier - 27 Feb 2018
Several books published in Europe between 1200 and 1500 discussed the Earth's shape, including "The Sphere," written in the early 1200s, which was required reading in European universities in the 1300s and beyond. But in the 1800s, a myth was ...

Above the Law - 09 Mar 2018
The other day I caught the headline about a class-action against 20 pharmaceutical companies. Nothing earth shaking there. These lawsuits are well-publicized. What caught my eye was the first nine words of the story. Words that when I see them used in ...

Hyperallergic - 02 Mar 2018
The lines in their films never lose the striking, often flat quality of recitation. As a result, they ring “off,” to the point of artifice. The Straub-Huillet method, often also likened to Bertolt Brecht's theatrical tactic of estrangement, is ...

Radio Times - 19 Mar 2018
From a critical perspective, it's not too hard to see why some episodes fell flat with viewers. For every functional story (like tonight's Kill All Others) or genuinely intriguing emotional journey (like Thorne's The Commuter), there were misses like ...

Beliefnet - 16 Mar 2018
Another myth is that the Bible says that the sun revolves around the earth. In Ecclesiastes 1:5 it says “The sun rises, and the sun sets; then it hurries back to the place where it rises again.” The statement simply describes the motion of the sun as ...

History - 06 Oct 2017
In 1492, Christopher Columbus was shocked when his ship made landfall in a land Europeans had never explored. Along the way, he proved that Earth isn't flat after all. Right? Wrong: Despite a persistent legend, neither Columbus nor his Spanish patrons ...

The Flat Hat - 27 Feb 2018
Beginning with “Cosmogony,” which explains the creation of the world, “Metamorphoses” takes its audience on an ancient trip. It brings to life the myths that society still tells and values today, stories that highlight the unified sorrows and joys of ...

Daily Star - 02 Dec 2017
Robbie Davidson is founder of the Flat Earth International Conference, and told Daily Star Online he wants his film Scientism Exposed 2 to make people question everything. He also explained why he thinks one piece of evidence will blow apart the globe ...

Healio - 24 May 2017
There have always been people of great resolve who have been absolutely certain of what they know, without necessarily having had to prove it. There is not much point in producing a long list, but you will get the picture if I give just a few examples ...

Washington Post - 21 Jul 2017
Historians say there is no doubt that the educated in Christopher Columbus's day knew quite well that the Earth was not flat but round — and as early as the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras — and later Aristotle and Euclid — wrote about the Earth as a ...

Hip-Hop Wired - 03 Nov 2017
B.o.B has already turned plenty of heads with his insistence and campaign that the earth is indeed flat, but now he's moved on to other conspiracy theories. Now, the Atlanta rapper is questioning the validity of slave ships by way of a new Instagram ...

JSTOR Daily - 07 Dec 2017
In the Nevada desert, limousine driver and amateur rocket enthusiast “Mad” Mike Hughes has built a homemade rocket in an attempt to launch himself approximately 2000 feet in the air. Why? To prove that the Earth is flat. Leaving aside how a 2000 foot ...

The Denver Post - 07 Jul 2017
And they want you to know. Because it's 2017. “This is a new awakening,” Vnuk says with a spark in his earth-blue eyes. “Some will accept it, some won't. But love it or hate it, you can't ignore Flat Earth.” The Fort Collins group — mostly white and ...